Louis Crawford Creative Portfolio.

Name: Louis 'Lucky' Crawford Pronouns: They/Them About Me: I am an NZ-based writer and Game Developer who is interested in creating complex portrayals of disability in media. Links Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-crawford-4123552b6

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The writer's colosseum. A competitive writing platform for storytellers around the world. Every story receives oodles of feedback.

Attached above is a Story I wrote for the Spring 2025 Writing Battle

The story is titled 'Of Bite Marks and Gas Station Bathrooms', and while it didn't win anything, it is the first story I've written to have gotten into the Top 8 of stories being judged. I'm rather proud of it so I thought I'd post a link here.

Content warnings for light sexual content and vague descriptions of near-death from blood loss.

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My chair, my liberation and my damnation  | Massive Magazine

From a young age, we are taught (in one way or another) that every action has a corresponding result. Flick a switch, and you’ll turn on the

This is a short story I wrote for Massive Magazine, the student magazine of Massey University, back in August of last year. The story goes over my experiences being visabiliy disabled, and my fucked up relationship with my wheelchair and how others view my disability.

Should probably post a trigger warning with this one for deep-seated internal ableism.

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맛 / MA by kiwisshouldfly, voodoodolly

Korean cooking RPG game demo

Last Year, I worked on a student game project called MA, a Korean RPG cooking game. I helped with production on the game, and as we continue to develop the game, I have taken on the additional role of an accessibility consultant (the first project I've done this for since I started studying accessibility).

You can find the demo that was made for the assignment on the attached link

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Inspiration Porn Stars  | Massive Magazine

Life got you feeling down? Ever feel like you can’t achieve your goals and dreams? Want to feel less shit about your depressing life? Well,

This week I got published in Massive again, the student magazine for Massey University in their Media Issue. This is a satirical piece talking about the issues of Inspiration Porn in relation to people living with disabilities.

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This is a story titled 'The Tragic Pageantry of Disability Grants' which I wrote for Massive Magazines Money Issue. It is a satirical take on my views of the nature of living with a disability and relying on grants for your finances, and the impact it can have on your mental health.

MASSIVE FINANCIAL GAIN!    That’s right! All you need to do is paralyse yourself or get a life-altering disability some other w

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This is a short story I wrote for Massive Magazine, the student magazine of Massey University. The story is titled 'The Conquor of Flames' and explores themes of living with PTSD and the weight of past success through the story of a dragon slayer.

The Conqueror of Flame  | Massive Magazine

Victory can feel like many things all at once. The climax of years of work. The relief that it all went your way. Pure joy and ecstasy that

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In 2023, during the third year of my Bachelor of Screen Arts degree at Massey University, I worked on a game project called 'Work Strike' with the games Creative Lead and Programmer Eden Lawless (or Rad Chad as he's known on YouTube) as the games Producer and Co-Writter.

Work Strike is a 2D fighting game set in Babylon Towers, an infinitely expanding eldritch entity of a morally corrupt company, where you play as a variety of workers/residents from the company, ranging from IT and maintenance workers, to samurai accountants, to a sentient vending machine with nothing but hate in it's heart.

I did the producing work for this project (managing the teams' schedules. paperwork, etc.) and helped with the character bios. These were shown off at the 2023 NZ Game Developers Conference, along with a demo of the game. Some of these were posted to an Instagram and Tumblr I made for the game.

Linked below is a video Eden made on the game, going into his inspiration for the game and his design choices when it came to game design.

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This is a short story I wrote for Massive Magzine, which is the student-run magazine for Massey University. The piece is titled 'Stares and Stares' and it goes over my experiences growing up visibility disabled and finding out I'm queer.

Stares and Stairs   | Massive Magazine

The Perspective of being Queer in a Wheelchair   Most strive to stand out in a crowd. To be a shining beacon of exceptionality. To be

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Back in 2020, during my final year of high school, I entered the Re-Draft Writing Competition, which is a New Zealand-based writing competition hosted by Clerestory Press for high school writers. Winners of this competition get their story published in an anthology book as part of the Re-Draft series.

The story I wrote for this book is titled "Of Curses & Demons," which is about a person who is not coping with the effects his newly acquired disability has on his life. In an attempt to get rid of his disability, he summons a demon to offer a trade for his soul but is surprised when the demon rejects the offer, demanding a different price.

If you are interested in reading it, the link to the book can be found below.

Death in a Raincoat — Clerestory Press

A Literary Milestone! Death in a Raincoat  is the 20th collection in the acclaimed Re-Draft series bringing together contributions fr

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Chickens Pickin Shrooms by skyemakesart

Gavin vs. Kevin, the ultimate mushroom eating showdown.

Chicken Pickin Shrooms is a PVP game Imade as part of a Massey Game Jam. I worked on the project as a programmer.

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Growing Pain by Benjamin_Fever

A game about trying to balance the stresses of plant growth

Growing Pains is a game project made for the 2023 KiwiJam. In this project, I served as a programmer.

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WitchGame - GameJam by Jonathan Pilaar

Witch Game is a game jam project I worked on in 2023 as part of a Massey Game Jam. For this project, I managed the game's assets and created the scenes for the town and the win/lose screens.